The Elmore Leonard Story
Four Novels of the 1980s: City Primeval, LaBrava, Glitz, Freaky Deaky
by Elmore Leonard, edited by Gregg Sutter
Four Novels of the 1970s: Fifty-Two Pickup, Swag, Unknown Man No. 89, The Switch
by Elmore Leonard, edited by Gregg Sutter
Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The Unpublished Stories
by Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard became famous as a crime novelist, but he didn’t like being grouped with most of the big names in that genre, people such as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett or, indeed, any of the noir writers. He disapproved of their melodrama, their pessimism, their psychos and nymphos and fancy writing. He saw in crime no glamour or sexiness but, on the contrary, long hours and sore feet.